Quotes About Consumption

the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.

E quem chegasse ao caos da boca deste monstro, fosse besta, navio ou pedra, ele engolia incontinente com sua bocarra enorme e fétida, e perecia no abismo sem fundo de seu estômago". PHILLEMON HOLLAND. "A MORAL DE PLUTARCO".

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp

But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is adding insult to injury, is it? Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand, dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?—what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating?

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and, like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it.

I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Feegee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Feegee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy paté-de-foie-gras.

Then there's the newish (November) nonfiction book by hot young writer Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals, which details more horrors of factory farming. Like how just one pig farming operation (Smithfield) produces more tons of shit than does the entire human population of California and Texas combined, and how that untreated waste has nowhere to go other than sprayed in a fecal mist into the air and waterways.

Ultimately, we get what we ask for. The culture has been dumbed down for our consumption because we consume it. Junk food wouldn't sell if we didn't eat it. Crap movies wouldn't get produced if we didn't pay to see them. Crap TV wouldn't get made if we didn't watch it. We're not only what we eat. We're also what we see and what we buy. Our culture is a reflection of who we are and how we think. We have met the enemy and he is us. Whether

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

How liberating to discover in the modern age that he, a city-dweller, an indoors man who lived by the keyboard and screen, could be tracked and ravaged and be an entire meal, a source of nourishment to others.

El mercado sigue siendo el principal enemigo de la cohesión social (y de la cohesión mundial), pues su lógica sólo concibe una sociedad dividida en dos grupos: los solventes y los insolventes. Estos últimos, que ni producen ni consumen, no le interesan en absoluto; están, por decirlo así, fuera de juego. Por naturaleza, el mercado es un productor de desigualdades, lo que no le impide exhibir una arrogancia pasmosa.

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

I keep kosher, so I have an element of consumption awareness embedded into my daily life. One of the things the practice does is make one more mindful of - and grateful for - what goes into your body.

You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.

YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare.

I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.

YouTube consumption is entirely based on good content. If you don't put out good content, people will not consume it.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting.